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PHP - Php Security: Website Directory Structure
Hi all,
So I've nearly finished coding my first website. Currently all the files are in the same directory on my harddrive, but I now want to create a proper folder structure that will be secure. I have been reading up on this a lot on various websites, but it seems like most articles on this topic are targetted at developers with much more complicated websites than mine, and it's all a bit over my head. My website is quite simple, it consists of the following: 1) html files and php files that print something to the screen that I want to be accessible to the user by typing in the url in the browser. 2) html and php files that are called upon by 1, they either print something to the screen inside an iframe or not at all - I want these files to be accessible only to 1) and not directly to the user by typing the url 3) image files and includes, etc. (and also 4) a MySQL database, but maybe this doesn't really have anything to do with the website folder structure.) What should my directory structure be and where should I put 1), 2), 3), etc.? Thanks a lot! Similar TutorialsHow to configure the server to restrict a user from accessing the directory structure, by changing the URL? for example: if the server redirects the user to the following URL upon successful login. http://mysite/dir1/dir2/dir3/phpfile.php currently, if i try change the URL to http://mysite/dir1/ even though there is no index webpage for dir1/, the directory structure gets exposed. how do i go about restricting the user from accessing the directory structure and throw an error message at him like "you are not authorised to view this", whenever a "smarty-pants" user tries to edit the URL manually. The user should only be able to see the webpages which the server redirects him to. nothing else. How to configure the PHP server such that, if the URL is modified manually, server should redirect to an error page instead of exposing the directory structure. Hiya, What's the best and most secure way of structuring a website? I have looked at various forum packages (.e.g phpBB, myBB, and smf), and they each seem to use a switch statement in the index.php file. When you go to a section of the website, a "GET" variable is passed, and the relevant area of the website is loaded through the switch statement. Is this the best and only way? I would appreciate any body's thoughts on this topic. Thanks, FishSword I have a script called getstarted who's purpose is to create microsights which are located as: /var/www/html/microsite1/index.php /var/www/html/microsite1/lib/ (symbolic link) /var/www/html/microsite1/administrator/index.php /var/www/html/microsite2/index.php /var/www/html/microsite2/lib/ (symbolic link) /var/www/html/microsite2/administrator/index.php /var/www/html/microsite3/index.php /var/www/html/microsite3/lib/ (symbolic link) /var/www/html/microsite3/administrator/index.phpEach of the index.php files looks like:
define( '_VSEXEC', 1 ); // Set flag to indicate that this is a parent
$file=__FILE__;
$type='back'; //or front
require('/path/to/mainfile.php');
Question:
Should the microsites be virtual servers or just subfolders? If there are many, seems like virtual servers are not a good solution, right?
Instead of accessing a microsite as http://mydomain.com/...site1/index.php and http://mydomain.com/...ator/index.php, I would like to do so as http://microsite1.my...n.com/index.php and http://microsite1.my...tor/index.php. How is this best accomplished?
The key to the microsites being unique is the name of the folder (microsite1, 2, 3, etc). Note that the user may later change the sites name (i.e. microsite1 to bobs_site) as well as the administrator link (i.e. administrator to bobs_backend) using the administrator PHP application. My mainfile.php which is included in each of the index.php files simply gets the name by using basename(dirname($file)), and then queries the DB using this name to get the microsite specifics. Is there anything inherently wrong with this approach?
A separate session cookie is used for the front microsite (http://mydomain.com/...site1/index.php) and the accompanying administrator microsite (http://mydomain.com/microsite1/administrator/index.php). The same session cookie should be used whether accessed as http://mydomain.com/...site1/index.php or http://microsite1.my....com/index.php, and the same for the two admin entry points (note that www.mydomain.com is rewritten to mydomain.com). I originally started asking this question in post http://forums.phpfre...ins-and-paths/, but don't think I was clear with my requirements. Currently, I have the session cookies for both the front and admin site as domain ".mydomain.com" and path "/microsite1/" The accompanying session is something like array('front'=>array('bla','bla'),'admin'=>array('bla','bla')). In hindsight, I think this was a poor decision as front users and admin users can logoff which should delete their session, and this causes both the front and admin session to be deleted if they are concurrently logged as as both. Recommendations how best to implement this (no detailed code required, just provide general approach).
Thank you
REFERENCE ONLY. My website has five pages which are implemented using files home.html, features.html, pricing.html, and main.php located in my HTML root directory (/var/www/html). home.html, features.html and pricing.html are accessed directly. main.php is accessed as http://mydomain.com/...ted&c=foo&d=bar for getstarted and similarily for contactus. Instead of using this as the URL, I would like to use http://mydomain.com/getstarted, http://mydomain.com/getstarted/foo, or http://mydomain.com/...arted/foo/bar. I have successfully implemented this by adding the the following to my Apache configuration file /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf as shown below (no need to check it out unless you want to). I wish to keep this functionality intact.
<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerName mydomain.com
ServerAlias www.mydomain.com mail.mydomain.com smtp.mydomain.com ftp.mydomain.com
DocumentRoot /var/www/html
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteLog /var/log/httpd/rewrite.log
RewriteLogLevel 3
</IfModule>
<Directory "/var/www/html">
Allow from all
Options +Indexes
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
## If the request is for a valid directory, file, or link, don't do anything
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -d [OR]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -f [OR]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -l
RewriteRule ^ - [L]
#remove the trailing slash
RewriteRule (.+)/$ $1
# If you add this first rule to support views, be sure to remove the QSA flag from the second rule (maybe not required since the first rule has the L flag)
# replace my-page/my-controller/data with main.php?p=my-page&c=my-controller&data=data
RewriteRule ^(getstarted|contactus)/([^/]+)/([^/]+)/?$ main.php?p=$1&c=$2&d=$3 [L,QSA]
# replace my-page/my-controller with main.php?p=my-page&c=my-controller
RewriteRule ^(getstarted|contactus)/([^/]+)/?$ main.php?p=$1&c=$2 [L,QSA]
# replace my-page with main.php?p=my-page
RewriteRule ^(getstarted|contactus)/?$ main.php?p=$1 [L,QSA]
#Replaces file if "." is not in the string (i.e. it will not replace file.html, but will replace file
RewriteRule ^([^.]+)$ $1.html [L]
</IfModule>
</Directory>
</VirtualHost>
hi, Hi have a web application www.prakhargoel.com/projects/lms/ that is used by students for logging and requesting a computer system in the internet lab. There is a corresponding labadmin at www.prakhargoel.com/projects/lms/labadmin. Though I tried to make this web app as secure as possible, there might be some shortcomings in the security which could be used by hackers. Please analyse the vulnerabilities and tell where I need to improve. If anyone needs, I can provide the php code for further testing. I have: 1) applied sha1 encryption to all passwords. 2) timeout sessions 3) sql injection filters, etc When having different levels of directories, using relative paths will not work anymore, for example: controller - authentication File 1: include('../../model/header.php') model File 2: header.php view File 3. style.css The header.php file includes the css file with a relative path, but the problem is it includes it as follows: ../view/style.css When now the header.php file gets included into File 1 in the folder "authentication", then the css file will not be accessible anymore, for it to be accessible you would have to go two directories up. In this sense my question is, what would be the proper path structure for a folder structure with multiple levels? Should I rather use absolute paths, I am not so prone of absolute path. What if the folders changes a bit, or the domain changes, or the location changes? My very first post..... please be gentle. Question 1: Why does this work? - include("./includes/constants.php"); Ok here goes - I have a website which was written in php. I did not write it and the person who did was new to php and programming - as am I. I have the job of completing it. It was written trying to follow an OO model. I have a class 'Database.php' which handles the DB connection side of things. Pretty standard stuff. This database class 'includes' a file called 'constants.php' which stores the DB_SERVER, DB_USER, DB_PASS and DB_NAME properties. HERE IS THE CATCH. The includes statement says: include("./includes/constants.php"); I dont understand the single dot and have not yet used it. The site works fine - with the exception that my forms do not work. The site pulls data, images, urls from the database so it obviously connects ok. The constants.php file is located up one level then in the includes folder. ie include("../includes/constants.php"); If I add a second dot ( ../ )it breaks - even though the path is correct with 2 dots. I dont get it. Question 2: So to add insult to injury when I leave it as a single dot (if it aint broke, dont fix it) and try to post a form I get these error messages: Warning: include(./includes/constants.php) [function.include]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /home/******/public_html/development/classes/database.php on line 2 Warning: include(./includes/constants.php) [function.include]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /home/******/public_html/development/classes/database.php on line 2 Warning: include() [function.include]: Failed opening './includes/constants.php' for inclusion (include_path='.:/usr/lib/php:/usr/local/lib/php') in /home/******/public_html/development/classes/database.php on line 2 I am a total newb at this but my english tells me that all of a sudden it is looking for my constants.php file in a total new path either :/usr/lib/php or usr/local/lib/php. Is there something special about 'includes'? I have used requires and require_once etc for other included files (in this website) without any path drama. I am using cPanel and I dont even see those directories - /usr/lib/php:/usr/local/lib/php. I hope I didnt put anyone to sleep. Both of these seem like simple problems, but I have tried and failed. Thanks for your help. hey all, i have an issue, i have a directory site called hackingtoolz.tk and if you go to it, you will see a list of folders as it is just a directory the problem is how to i stop the banner from apearing in the directory. i have tried changing the chmod to 4000 and that just made the jpeg stay their and the banner screw up if you go to the site you will understand what i mean better hope you can help cheers nick Hi guys, I've been working on a script for a while now, and I'm sure it doesn't look great and all, and it's probably really messed up.. But right now I've finally got it working! There's only 1 thing I'd really like to add.. Searching through & listing of remote directories! The directories I'm trying to list have directory listings enabled, and I think it *should* be possible. I just have no clue how. Here's my current code in a beautiful mix of HTML and PHP: <? $border_size = "0"; function returner($what) { $what=explode("/",$what); $tps=count($what); $what=$what[$tps-1]; return $what; } $page_url= ""; $home_url=returner(__FILE__); if(isset($_GET['q'])) { $qtext=$_GET['q']; } else { $qtext=""; } function getdirsize($directory, $format=FALSE) { $size = 0; if(substr($directory,-1) == '/') { $directory = substr($directory,0,-1); } if(!file_exists($directory) || !is_dir($directory) || !is_readable($directory)) { return -1; } if($handle = opendir($directory)) { while(($file = readdir($handle)) !== false) { $path = $directory.'/'.$file; if($file != '.' && $file != '..') { if(is_file($path)) { $size += filesize($path); } elseif(is_dir($path)) { $handlesize = getdirsize($path); if($handlesize >= 0) { $size += $handlesize; } else { return -1; } } } } closedir($handle); } if($format == TRUE) { if($size / 1048576 > 1) { return round($size / 1048576, 1).' MB'; } elseif($size / 1024 > 1) { return round($size / 1024, 1).' KB'; } else { return round($size, 1).' bytes'; } } else { return $size; } } if(isset($_GET['type'])){ $type=$_GET['type']; } else { $type="new"; } $textures=0; $models=0; $avatars=0; $seqs=0; $sounds=0; foreach (glob("textures/*.jpg") as $texture){ $textures++; } foreach (glob("models/*.zip") as $model){ $models++; } foreach (glob("avatars/*.zip") as $avatar){ $avatars++; } foreach (glob("seqs/*.zip") as $seq){ $seqs++; } foreach (glob("sounds/*.zip") as $sound){ $sounds++; } ?> <!DOCTYPE html> <html> <head> <title>ObjectPath Search</title> <style type="text/css"> #wrapper { width: 850px; margin: 30px auto 30px auto; padding: 10px; } body { color:#C6C6C6; background:#1E1E1E; /* margin:0; padding:0; */ overflow-x:hidden; } #tabs { font: 85% "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; } .left { float: left; } .right { float: right; } a:link, a:visited, a:active { color: #3DB015; text-decoration: none; } a:hover { color: #00E0FF; } h2 { color: #3DB015; padding-bottom: 0.2em; font-size: 110%; } ul#icon {margin: 0; padding: 0;} ul#icon li {margin: 1px; position: relative; padding: 1px 0; cursor: pointer; float: left; list-style: none;} ul#icon span.ui-icon {float: left; margin: 0 1px;} </style> <link type="text/css" href="http://objects.jk-hosting.com/search/css/black-tie/jquery-ui-1.8.2.custom.css" rel="stylesheet" /> <script type="text/javascript" src="http://objects.jk-hosting.com/search/js/jquery-1.4.2.min.js"></script> <script type="text/javascript" src="http://objects.jk-hosting.com/search/js/jquery-ui-1.8.2.custom.min.js"></script> <script type="text/javascript"> function formHandler(form){ var URL = document.form.site.options[document.form.site.selectedIndex].value; window.location.href = URL; }; $(function(){ // Tabs $('#tabs').tabs(); }); </script> </head> <body> <div id="wrapper"> <div id="tabs"> <!-- Tabs start --> <ul> <li><a href="#tab-search">Search</a></li> <li><a href="#tab-list">List Objects</a></li> <li><a href="#tab-info">OP info</a></li> </ul> <div id="tab-search"><!-- Searchtab start --> Please enter a string to search for, and choose a folder to search in. <br /><br /> <form name="Search"> <input type='hidden' value='search' name='type'> <input value='<? print $qtext; ?>' type='text' name='q'> <select name='map'> <option selected='selected' value='models'>Models</option> <option value='avatars'>Avatars</option> <option value='textures'>Textures</option> <option value='seqs'>Seqs</option> <option value='sounds'>Sounds</option></select> <input type='submit' value='Search'> </form> </div> <!-- Searchtab end --> <div id="tab-list"><!-- Listtab start --> Please pick a folder to browse. <br /><br /> <form name="form"> <select name="site" onChange="javascript:formHandler()"> <option value="#">Look in folder...</option> <option value="<? print $page_url; ?>?type=list&map=models">Models</option> <option value="<? print $page_url; ?>?type=list&map=avatars">Avatars</option> <option value="<? print $page_url; ?>?type=list&map=textures">Textures</option> <option value="<? print $page_url; ?>?type=list&map=seqs">Seqs</option> <option value="<? print $page_url; ?>?type=list&map=sounds">Sounds</option> </select> </form> </div> <!-- Listtab end --> <div id="tab-info"><!-- Info tab start --> The OP currently contains: <br /><br /> <table> <tr><td><b><? echo $models; ?></b></td> <td>Models</td></tr> <tr><td><b><? echo $avatars; ?></b></td> <td>Avatars</td></tr> <tr><td><b><? echo $textures; ?></b></td> <td>Textures</td></tr> <tr><td><b><? echo $seqs; ?></b></td> <td>Seqs</td></tr> <tr><td><b><? echo $sounds; ?></b></td> <td>Sounds</td></tr> </table> </div> <!-- Info tab end --> </div> <!-- Tabs end --> </div> <!-- Start PHP generated content --> <? if($type=="search" || $type=="list") { $M=$_GET['map']; if($type=="search") { $Q=$_GET['q']; $empty="Nothing found with <b>\"" . $Q . "\"</b> in it's name.<br />\nPlease make a more general search query, or try a different folder.\n\n"; } else { $Q=""; $empty='This folder is empty'; } if($M=="textures") { $ext="jpg"; } else { $ext="zip"; } $i=0; print "<hr>\n"; $endfile=array(); $endsize=array(); $endsize2=array(); foreach (glob($M."/*".$Q."*.".$ext) as $filename) { $filename = explode(".", $filename); $filename=$filename[0]; $filename = explode("/", $filename); $filename=$filename[1]; $i++; $endfile[$i]=$filename; if($ext=="jpg") { $endfile[$i]="<a name='".$endfile[$i]."' href='".$pageurl."?type=view&name=".$endfile[$i]."&folder=".$M."&from=".$type."&addon=".$Q."'>".$endfile[$i]."</a>"; } $endsize[$i]=$size; $endsize2[$i]=$size2; } if($i != 1) { print "<b>".$i."</b> items were found.\n<hr>\n"; } else { print "<b>".$i."</b> item was found.\n<hr>\n"; } echo("<table width='100%' border='" . $border_size . "' cellspacing='0' cellpadding='0' >\n"); if($i!=0) { for ($t = 1; $t < $i; $t++) { $thumbfile = $M."/".$endfile[$t].'.jpg'; if(file_exists($thumbfile)) { $thumbnail = "<a name='".$endfile[$t]."' href='".$page_url."?type=view&name=".$endfile[$t]."&folder=".$M."&from=".$type."&addon=".$Q."'><ul id='icon'><li class='ui-state-default ui-corner-all' title='".$endfile[$t]."'><span class='ui-icon ui-icon-image'></span></li></ul></a>"; } else { $thumbnail = ""; } if($t=="1") { echo("<tr><td width='10%'>Number</td><td width='3%'><ul id='icon'><li class='ui-state-default ui-corner-all' title='".$endfile[$t]."'><span class='ui-icon ui-icon-image'></span></li></ul></td><td width='60%'>Name</td></tr>\n"); } echo("<tr><td>" . $t . "</td><td>".$thumbnail."</td><td>" . $endfile[$t] . "</td></tr>\n"); flush(); } $thumbfile = $M."/".$endfile[$t].'.jpg'; if(file_exists($thumbfile)) { $thumbnail = "<a name='".$endfile[$t]."' href='".$page_url."?type=view&name=".$endfile[$t]."&folder=".$M."&from=".$type."&addon=".$Q."'><ul id='icon'><li class='ui-state-default ui-corner-all' title='".$endfile[$t]."'><span class='ui-icon ui-icon-image'></span></li></ul></a>"; } else { $thumbnail = ""; } echo("<tr><td>" . $t . "</td><td>".$thumbnail."</td><td>" . $endfile[$t] . "</td></tr>\n"); } print "</table>\n"; if($i=="0") { print $empty; } } elseif($type=="view") { $filename=$_GET['name']; $folder=$_GET['folder']; if($_GET['from']=="list"){ $addon="?type=list&map=".$folder."#".$filename; } if($_GET['from']=="search"){ $addon="?type=search&q=".$filename."&map=".$folder."#".$filename; } print"<center><a href='".$home_url."'>Home</a></center>"; print "<hr>\n<center><img src='".$folder."/".$filename.".jpg'></img></center>\n<hr>\n<br />\n<a href='".$page_url."".$addon."'>Previous Page</a>\n"; } $htmlshow=""; if($_GET['type']=="returnOPfile") { if(isset($_GET['split'])) { $splitter=$_GET['split']; } else { $splitter=" | "; } if(isset($_GET['html'])) { $htmlshow="<br />"; } foreach (glob("textures/*.jpg") as $texture){ if(isset($_GET['size'])) { $size=$splitter.filesize($texture); } $texture = explode("/", $texture); $texture=$texture[1]; print "textures".$splitter.$texture.$size."\n".$htmlshow; } foreach (glob("models/*.zip") as $model){ if(isset($_GET['size'])) { $size=$splitter.filesize($model); } $model = explode("/", $model); $model=$model[1]; print "models".$splitter.$model.$size."\n".$htmlshow; } foreach (glob("avatars/*.zip") as $avatar){ if(isset($_GET['size'])) { $size=$splitter.filesize($avatar); } $avatar = explode("/", $avatar); $avatar=$avatar[1]; print "avatars".$splitter.$avatar.$size."\n".$htmlshow; } foreach (glob("seqs/*.zip") as $seq){ if(isset($_GET['size'])) { $size=$splitter.filesize($seq); } $seq = explode("/", $seq); $seq=$seq[1]; print "seqs".$splitter.$seq.$size."\n".$htmlshow; } foreach (glob("sounds/*.zip") as $sound){ if(isset($_GET['size'])) { $size=$splitter.filesize($sound); } $sound = explode("/", $sound); $sound=$sound[1]; print "sounds".$splitter.$sound.$size."\n".$htmlshow; } } ?> <!-- End PHP generated content --> </body> </html> So right now my question to you PHP freaks is, can you please help me edit my script so I can search through a remote directory? *This* is one of the directories I wish to be able to search through & list.. Thanks in advance. Edit; It might help if you know what the site currently looks like. *Click* i have made an delete files script which works for only one directory but not sub directory so i want to delete files of same extention from directory and subdirectory. My current code is Code: [Select] <? $dir = 'hmm/'; function scanr($dir){ $arr = glob($dir.'/*.jpg'); foreach($arr as $vv){ //check if $vv is a file if(is_file($vv)){ //if file, get the filename $vx=explode('/',$vv); $file=$vx[count($vx)-1]; // if no extension delete the file unlink($vv); // print the deletion message echo $vv." deleted!<br>";}else{ // if $vv is a dir then scan it again for files scanr($vv); }} } scanr($dir); ?> I'm trying to echo the directory and sub directory only. I am not looking to show the files contained - only folders. I have multiple forms within one php file. What is the best structure to use? Code: [Select] if (isset($_POST["one"])) { include... } if (isset($_POST["two"])) { include... } if (isset($_POST["three"])) { include... } OR Code: [Select] if (isset($_POST["one"])) { include... } else if (isset($_POST["two"])) { include... } else if (isset($_POST["three"])) { include... } thanks Hy I have a question. Do you think that the code structure from php affect the SEO? I mean if the application is made in basic php or OOP. thk Hi. I am creating a database where a user can store up to 50 names of their family members. I have two table structures in mind and curious which one is the more efficient structure. ==================================================================================================== TABLE A: userid-firstfamilymemberid-firstfamilymembername-secondfamilymemberid-secondfamilymembername Note:(the columns would repeated until the fiftiethfamilymemberid and fiftiethfamilymembername for a total of 101 columns) TABLE B: userid-familymemberid-familymembername ====================================================================================================== which is more efficient... Table A which would have more columns but less rows or Table B which would have less rows but more columns.. also keep in mind that the fixed amount is 50 family members per a user. Thanks in advance. Hey guys ;-) I got a client that asked me today to create him an MLM type website. The first part of my work would be to test if there system works so I need to run a full demo of the multilevel structure. The MLM structure works as follow: 1 person finds 2 members and they then find 2 more each and so on until we reach 100 level deep. If i got this right, At level 5 there will be 25 members At level 10 there will be 100 members At level 20 there will be 400 members At level 40 there will be 1.600 members At level 100 there will be 10.000 members So at the end of the demo there should be 10k members inserted into the table The table looks like this: id, parent, level, under Parent is the ID of the guy that recruited him, level is the level that guy is at (level 1, 2 , 3, 4 or 5) and under is the number of people under him. I need to run a script that will insert all the data into that table so that we can run some test on the liability of the project so we can set the rates right. At first I thought it would be a piece of cake ... but when I started I found out very fast that populating the MLM network 5 level deep is gona be tricky ... my first attempt gave me a result that looks like this: Code: [Select] |0| |1|2| |x|x|3|4| x|x|x|x|x|x|5|6| As you can see the script only grab the last id then adds 2 new members then uses the last one as the parent and starts over ... So my script is useless and I did not figer out how to do everything in 1 step ... Any help would be appreciated. I'm currently working on a site that has about 4 separate panels on the page that all use an include to populate. Each include is interacting with the database and I'm thinking that it might congest the databse to have each panel connecting to the same data base and getting data when the page loads. I was wondering if it would be good practice to take all the connections and functions and put them on a 5th include at the top of the page. This way the connections and functions would be available to each include. Is this a good idea? Will it be a problem for the 4 includes to ask the php function list include for data? Is it better to just let each include contain only the code it needs? Also, say I have 20 functions on the php include and one site page only needs to use 1 function. Would the php function include still loop thru and connect to the database for all 20 functions just because it is included or will it only use the bandwidth needed to execute the 1 function it is being asked to use? Hope that's not over confusing. Thanks! Hello everyone I want to know why are these functions discouraged because I have a problem ***************** http://mx.php.net/manual/en/function.spliti.php Warning This function has been DEPRECATED as of PHP 5.3.0. Relying on this feature is highly discouraged. ***************** I have a long list of standard features of some products (90 features 1800 products) which I am integrating in a CMS. I have to elaborate a CREATE, READ and MODIFY section for the products and I was thinking of using check boxes and if statements with 90 columns in my DB for each feature. (I hope there is an easier way to do this) Before I typed in all the features in one column and splited it with the previous functions mentioned, but it doesn't work for the modify section of the CMS. I am trying to learn a method in which I can easily integrate this 90 standard features in the CMS. Does anyone has a good idea? Alright guys.. I need some advice, some recommendations and definitely some help. I've got a submission form for users to upload an image and some basic personal information. The client wanted the information to be divided by the North America (specifically N.A. and not U.S.) and Europe.. so I created a database table with the typical structu a row for the user's name, email, etc. I also added a row labeled "regionid" in which "1" would equal North America and "2" would equal Europe. This "regionid" row would obviously organize the submission by their country. The client specifically wanted to label North America but mentioned only users from the States would probably only submit images, etc. Users could choose if they were submitting a form for US or Europe and "regionid" would be filled by which form was chosen. Recently, the client threw a curveball and now wants Canada as part of the North America submission form. Now, I don't want to add Canada as another option for my "regionid" row because it does belong under North America. However, I need to alter the structure of the database I currently have so that it can now organize if under North America or Europe, and if under North America, if the submission falls under the United States or Canada. I was thinking of adding a drop down menu under the North America form with the options US or Canada. Do you guys have any advice or other directions you would take to solve this problem.. that is, if my situation is even understandable? I found it pretty difficult to explain! Apologies! 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As for executing a function for each plugin (so that will be a Class object), I wonder how I can make an object of each class from an interface and then execute a function without hardcoding the creation of all objects. Any one ideas or experience with something like this? Thanks in advance. Hey guys, I have a bunch of categories and products in a tree format. For several reasons I need to restructure them from the tree format into a flattened format. I have 2 arrays, one full of categories, the other products. Each category and product has an ID, and a reference to it's parent's ID. The top level categories reference to 0. What I need is to have the categories output like thus: Top Level Categories: Category 1 Category 2 Category 1 Sub category 1 Sub category 2 Category 2 Sub category 3 Sub category 4 Sub category 1 Product 1 Product 2 Sub category 2 Product 3 Product 4 Sub category 3 Product 5 Product 6 Sub category 4 Product 7 Product 8 There could be an unlimited number of sub categories within categories before we get to products, so this needs to be done through a function, however I cannot for the life of me think how to do this. Initially I thought about using 2 arrays, a buffer of categories outputted, and a queue of categories to be outputted, but quickly realised that when I go more than 2 layers deep I can't keep track of the queue's properly. |
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